There are many commonsense solutions to gun violence: Shorts
About 300 students gathered in the Reno High School front lawn to memorialize the deaths of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Mike Higdon/RGJ (Photo: Kurt Kuznicki, provided by Greg Shorts) Every time there is a mass shooting, people talk about gun violence, but that’s all that ever happens: talk. The governor has convened a school safety task force, but school shootings are just a small part of the overall gun violence problem that we are having in Nevada. We have an epidemic of accidents, suicides, homicides and mass shootings. Looking at the school safety issue alone will do nothing to address other mass casualties from right here in Nevada such as the shootings at the Carson City IHOP, the church in Fallon, and in Las Vegas. This issue hits us where we live. In the short term, there are some very easy first steps. We need to ban bump stocks, and we need to institute “red-flag laws” that stop those who might do harm to themselves and others from accessing firearms. These are easy steps to take, and there is wide agreement on them. More: Look at our data on gun violence in Nevada. Then take our survey about firearms But the larger problem is that as a society we need to show that we actually care about the issue. Each time we have a shooting and then do nothing about it, we continue to send a message that there is nothing wrong with […]
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